Cioppino's making itself at home at Fisherman's Wharf
Nick Hoppe and his family have run businesses at Fisherman's Wharf for more than 30 years, including one of the highest-grossing restaurants, Cioppino's, for close to 20. Yet Hoppe still often feels out of place in the neighborhood. "He just feels like such a rookie among all these older established families," says his daughter, Taryn Hopp...
U.S. flies Italian executive to Florida in first bid-rigging extradition
The United States has extradited a former executive of an Italian marine hose manufacturer to face price-fixing charges in what the Justice Department said was its first extradition on antitrust charges. Romano Pisciotti, a former executive with Italy's Parker ITR SRL, was extradited from Germany and arrived in Miami on Thursday to face a...
Italian fashion: Naives Transgressions, Benedetta Bruzziches SS '14
WTI Magazine #26 2014 Apr, 18Author : Irene Salvadorini for PoisonDrops.com Translation by: Dreamlike TrendA film by Tim Burton, a unicorn printed by Jeremy Scott, an irresistible bag that has to be unwrapped and a walk in the woods between hula hoop and soap bubbles; golden hands that hold the secrets of a woman and the heart lying...
Church of the Assumption's St. Anthony's Italian Feast Returns for Its 14th Year On June 5
by Leona M Seufert You know that summer has arrived in Roselle Park, New Jersey when the Church of the Assumption's annual St. Anthony Italian Family Feast returns for its 14th year! Once again it will be four days of faith, fun, family and friends, packed full of delicious homemade cooking, an Italian style Café, food venders, a beer &...
Gran Serata Futurista: A homage to Italian Futurism
A homage to Italian Futurism. Massimiliano Finazzer Flory plays the role of the movement's founder, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. In an effervescent monologue which uses the words of Marinetti and other Futurist ideologues such as Giovanni Papini, Libero Altomare and Aldo Palazzeschi, Finazzer Flory, in a frock coat bringing to mind the forma...
Rome’s Teatro dell’Opera starts the summer off right
The evocative stage that becomes part of the summer scenery at the Terme di Caracalla (the Caracalla Baths) makes its return on June 24th, beginning this year's summer opera and ballet season for the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma. Patrons can expect an even richer programme than the last time around, with 25 performances of traditional reperto...
Long Beach gondoliers hit rhythm in Italian regatta
What a day! The team got down to the boat early Saturday to set the flags, both California and USA. It's been funny over the years how the California flag garners louder cheers than the U.S. flag.Well, kinda funny. They love the SoCal boys over here, and we plan to not disappoint. The 18th-century gondola replica floats in what we call the bat cav...
In Perugia, Ten Days of Great Music
Ten days of great music at the Umbria Jazz Festival, the most important Italian jazz festival returning to Perugia from July 11th through 20th. Also this year, the theaters and squares of the Umbrian city open to the most popular names on the international scene, such as Herbie Hancock, Natalie Cole, Danilo Rea, Paolo Fresu, Wayne Shorter...
When calcio first came to the North End
Soccer via the World Cup is making the headlines this past month. Recently, in column for in the Clarion-Ledger, Ann Coulter helped it along when she linked the growing popularity of soccer to "moral decay" in the United States. I thought it was a funny column, a tongue-in-cheek stab at the definite media hype around this increasingly (albeit quadr...
66th Annual Procession and Feast of Maria SS Addolorata, Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn
The Congregation of Maria SS Addolorata announces the 66th Annual Procession and Feast of Maria SS Addolorata, Patron Saint of Mola di Bari, Italy. The Procession will leave Sacred Hearts and St. Stephen's Church at 3:00 PM on Sunday Sept. 14th, 2014. The church is located at the corner of Hicks and Summitt Street, in the Carroll Gardens s...
A Brooklyn Dining Institution With Roots in Both Italy and a Great Love
by Charlotte Druckman "We are the only ones left," the chef Anna Klinger reflects from a stool at Al di Là Vino, the bar next door to the trattoria of the same name, which she and her Italian husband Emiliano Coppa opened in Brooklyn's Park Slope nearly 16 years ago. "This stretch of Fifth Avenue was a dicey neighborhood." She ges...
The real Italian debate on salting pasta water—not if, but when
It took a 300-page hedge fund report to tell Olive Garden that they had a big problem—there's no salt in the pasta. "Shockingly," says the report, "Olive Garden no longer salts the water it uses to boil the pasta, merely to get a longer warranty on its pots." Shocking indeed. The Italian word for pasta that lacks salt—"sciocca"—also means "si...